I am trying to show just the folders in a directory.
Example C:/Test/Game1.
In Game1 there are folders folder1, folder2, folder3. But there are more folders in folder 1, 2 and 3 which I don't want to show.
I have used -maxdepth 1 but it shows up with the error
Too many parameters - 1
The Windows tree command does unfortunately not support an option for the maximum depth. However, you could filder the output by the findstr command in the following way:
tree "C:\Test\Game1" /A | findstr /V /B /R /C:"[| ] "
Assuming that the output of this tree command is something like (using ASCII characters (/A) rather than extended ones, because they are easier to handle as they do not depend on the current code page):
Folder PATH listing for volume &&&& Volume serial number is ####-#### C:\TEST\GAME1 +---folder1 | +---folder11 | | +---folder111 | | \---folder112 | \---folder12 | +---folder111 | \---folder112 +---folder2 | +---folder21 | \---folder22 \---folder3 +---folder31 \---folder32
The findstr command removes (/V) everything that begins (/B) with | or SPACE and is followed by three more SPACEs. These criteria are fulfilled for all lines that show a folder that is deeper then level 1. Hence the output would be something like this:
Folder PATH listing for volume &&&& Volume serial number is ####-#### C:\TEST\GAME1 +---folder1 +---folder2 \---folder3
To display more levels, simply extend the search expression accordingly; so to go down until level 2, use /C:"[| ] [| ] ".
To hide the header (containing the volume information and the upper-case root path), just append a SPACE and /C:"[^+|\\]" to the command line.
Note that the Windows path separator is \ but not /.
So, what you wanted was to print all directories in a folder in a tree format (ASCII characters of course). Inspired from aschipfl's solution, I came up with the opposite one:
tree /A "C:\Test\Game1" | findstr /BRC:"[^| ] "
which actually echoes lines that don't contain string |.
For a more difficult/complicated solution, I came up with:
@echo off
set "counter=0"
cd /D "C:\Test\Game1"
echo FOLDER PATH listing
for /F "skip=1 tokens=*" %%A IN ('vol') do echo %%A
echo C:.
for /F "delims= eol=" %%B IN ('dir /B /AD') do set /a "counter+=1"
set "_counter=0"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "delims=" %%C IN ('dir /B /AD') do set /a "_counter+=1" & if not !_counter! EQU %counter% (echo +---%%C) else (echo \---%%C)
pause
exit /b 0
But that is not a good solution at all: it just copies the way tree command works. Better use my first solution.
Just looking for lines that start with '+-' works on my machine.
tree /A "C:\src" | findstr /BR "[+\\]-"
Of course, there are other commands that can do this without tree.
cmd.exe - DIR /A:D
powershell.exe - Get-ChildItem -Directory -Recurse -Depth 0
